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WASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND
WASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND (Washington) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,911,845 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,910,229). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 70
- Grants received
- $6.9M
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What Washington's National Park Fund does
Mission
Washington's National Park Fund is the official philanthropic partner of washington state's three largest national parks. Our mission is to raise funds to preserve and enhance the natural beauty, cultural heritage, and recreational opportunities of mount rainier, north cascades, and olympic national parks so that they remain vibrant, thriving ecosystems and cherished destinations for future generations. Our vision is for washington's national parks to ignite a deep sense of wonder and awe in the hearts of all who experience them.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mount rainier national park funding: grants to mount rainier national park supported a variety of projects and programs including the volunteer program, which recruits over a thousand participants to restore trails, patrol alpine meadows, provide visitor programs, and more; meadow rovers, who educate park visitors about treating the fragile meadows with care; emergency roadside assistance volunteers, also known as the superheroes of vacation roadside mishaps; access for all, a project that enables park staff to evalute trail accessibilty and create accessibility resources for visitors; and the alpine garden protection team.
$791,345 spentof which $544,622 as grants43% of program spendingOlympic national park funding: grants to olympic national park supported a variety of projects and programs including makah cultural resource monitoring to ensure archeological sites are documented and protected; backcountry ski access and safety improvements; the middle school science program; the adventures in your big backyard youth program; the native plant nursery volunteer program; support for the artist-in-residence program; and support for backcountry trail improvements.
$649,115 spentof which $402,392 as grants35% of program spendingNorth cascades national park funding: grants to north cascades national park supported a variety of projects and programs including "bear rangers" to educate visitors on proper food storage and how to safely coexist with the park's wildlife through the bear essentials safety program; the food sustainability project, which partners the park with the lummi nation and common threads; backcountry permit educational videos; and the nature exploration project.
$418,117 spentof which $171,394 as grants22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,858,577.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $4.1M to $5.5M (+34%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 11% · 2023 9% · 2024 11% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of WASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Steve Dubiel
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $237k → $1.5M.
16 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of WASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
WASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
79% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund WASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 29% · 2019 41% · 2020 21% · 2021 51% · 2022 34% · 2023 24% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of WASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
66% of WASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.4M that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
WASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND?
- WASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND (Washington) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,911,845 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,910,229). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND have?
- IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $6,911,845 in grants to WASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,910,229 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 70 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing